Good point. I don't know the best way to do this, but we should definitely make sure that the VM we provide is equipped with easy file access from the host system.
-- Anders On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:22:54PM -0500, Douglas N Arnold wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and this worked easily for me. > I suppose that when using this, most people will want to access > their files on their non virtual box. For this I installed sshfs > on the virtual box and then used > > sudo sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/home/arnold /mnt > > Maybe sshfs should installed in the base system, and something > like this should be added to the instructions. Or is there > a better way to do this? > > -- Doug > > On 07/02/2014 01:17 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: > >We have a new, experimental installation approach for FEniCS that is based > >on Vagrant and virtual machines. It will hopefully make the installation of > >FEniCS simple and easy on a wide variety of platforms. Instructions on using > >Vagrant for FEniCS can be found at: > > > > https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual > > > >So far, it’s been tested on Windows, OSX and various Linux distributions. If > >you try it out, any feedback is very welcome (both successes and failures). > >Specific technical issues can be registered at > > > > https://bitbucket.org/garth-wells/fenics-virtual/issues > > > >Recent versions of Vagrant support Docker (Linux containers), so we may look > >to integrate the work of Lizao Li on Docker into an ‘official’ Vagrant-based > >VM and Docker installation system. > > > >The Vagrant-based system for FEniCS builds on the work of Jack Hale. > > > >Garth > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >fenics mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics > > > _______________________________________________ > fenics mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
